[cheering and applause] >> well, that was fun and remember, please join us for a live studio audience. >> bill: great show, guys, good morning. question at the moment will she or won't she? that is adam schiff on capitol hill this morning. marie yovanovitch scheduled for a close door interview with house lawmakers. will the white house block her testimony as we saw the other day? we'll follow this by the minute and let you know as it happens unfolding moment by moment. i'm bill hemmer live inside of "america's newsroom." you've almost made it. >> sandra: not there yet. good morning to you. i'm sandra smith. this is just part of the story this morning as we learn more about the whistleblower who filed the complaint against the president. "the washington examiner" is reporting the person at the

center of it all had a professional tie to the obama/biden white house. last night in minnesota the president unleashing in his first rally since the democrats openedthiniry. repeatedly attacking joe biden and his son, hunter. >> bill: outside the arena there was lots of action. anti-trump protestors burning maga hats facing off with police in riot gear. more in a moment. first the rally that lasted an hour and 30 minutes. some of the case the president was making there in minneapolis. >> president trump: the wretched washington swamp has been trying to nullify the results of a truly great and democratic election. the election of 2016. they want to erase your voice and they want to erase your future. democrats are on a crusade to destroy our democracy. by the way, whatever happened to hunter? where the hell is he?

the bidens got rich and that is substantiated. while america got robbed. this is nothing but a partisan witch hunt. there is nothing that the dirty political establishment hates more than a president that they cannot intimidate, own and control. [applause] they are trying to stop me because they know that i don't answer to them, i answer to you. it's true. [cheering and applause] >> sandra: in just moments we'll be speaking to clinton cash -- matt finn is standing by in minnesota. >> bill: catherine her i can has the news for the moment what's happening behind closed doors. is she there or not? >> we had a little excitement a few minutes ago. we thought she had arrived. it was the democratic chairman adam schiff who came down the

spiral staircase behind me. we expect marie yovanovitch sometime in the next hour for a closed door transcribed interview. people get very fixated whether the interviews are under oath or not. if they lie or mislead investigators the same penalties attach. she is a controversial figure. she was pulled back from her posting in ukraine two months ahead of schedule. those close to her say it was because she was not playing ball with rudy giuliani's investigation but also another side to the story. yesterday in a separate development former republican congressman pete sessions put out a statement and he confirmed that in may of 2018 he sent a letter to the state department secretary of state mike pompeo because he said he had concrete evidence that yovanovitch has been disparaging the trump administration in the course of her public duties. that statement reads in part my entire motivation for sending the letter, the letter to

secretary pompeo was that i believe that political appointees should not be disparjing a the president especially while serving overseas. a key witness scheduled for early next week on the federal holiday monday and that's fiona hill. she matters because she is a former national security council staffer. fox news has been trying to get in touch with her over the last 10 days. she is on the leave of absence from the brookings institution but we have reached her on text message to ask her whether she was involved in any way with the july 25th phone call. whether she did prep and whether she got a read-out after the fact of that call from someone within the white house. she has not responded to our request for comment, bill. >> bill: thank you. bringing us blow by blow from the hill on friday. back to you in a moment. >> sandra: the politics of it all. president trump riled up supporters at a rally in minnesota last night. outside there were crowds of

protestors. they burned maga hats and chanted lock her up before officers with riot gear stepped in. matt finn was in the middle of all of it for hours last night and joins us live from minneapolis. >> right now minneapolis police tell us they're reviewing reports and data from the incidents outside of the target center last night. they will compile a summary which we'll bring to you. so far police have not released the numbers on any potential arrests or injuries. last night there were at least 1,000 protestors here outside of the target center and throughout the evening we dealt with a series of instigators trying to intimidate our news crew and other people around us. at one point a few women who were peacefully protesting said i wish these people would go away they're starting trouble. closer to the end of the president's rally protestors began starting fires and lighting maga hats on fire and

abolish ice. police rushed in to put the fire out and protestors unleashed throwing stuff at police and their forces calling them pigs. mobs also surrounded cars as they were leaving a nearby parking lot forcing the cars to come to a halt. a protestors punched the window of one car. police had to form a human line to allow cars to leave. police officers were in riot gear and used tear gas a few times. overall they stayed in their formation. police did not take anyone in the custody. at the end of the night i spoke to a very vocal protestors and asked if she felt like the protests and demonstrations were hijacked by bad actors. stuff happens. their message was to protest minneapolis police with a history of mistreating black people and minorities and not too concerned about some of the violence at the rally. >> we came out here to show

that he is not welcome in minnesota, period. gay lives matter, every life matters, black lives matter, we matter out here. >> a little dangerous. does that bother you? >> no. >> so far no word or comment from the mayor, sandra. >> sandra: matt finn in minneapolis. >> bill: author of peter schweizer, good morning to you. i want to rifle through a number of things in the next couple minutes. first of all, what could this ambassador offer behind closed doors? and why would the white house allow her to go when the others were blocked earlier in the week? >> great question. she is really at the crossroads of the dispute in ukraine right now. the allegation is that she basically has been hostile to president trump and his agenda. a holdover from the obama years and the u.s. embassy in ukraine was essentially trying

to help the clinton campaign but that is subject to debate. will she be pressed on that? she will claim she was not cooperating with rudy giuliani in the work that he was doing in the ukraine. i think these are all questions that need to be addressed but the white house certainly is going to argue executive privilege that the ambassador should not be talking about communications involving the white house or official u.s. policy. it will be interesting to see. >> bill: she is still employed at the u.s. government. they could block her testimony. what we believe as of this moment that it will proceed. i want to draw your attention to an article you wrote in the "new york times." you said what hunter biden did was legal. the biden campaign had a problem with that. the president asked the question where is hunter biden? a fair question today. where is he?

>> he has been radio silent. if you look at the way the bidens have handled this issue, it has been to not answer any questions which i think raises further suspicions. hunter biden is somewhere allegedly in california hiding out. and joe biden won't answer any questions on this. he gets angry. i think when you generate more heat than actual light on these important issues, people become suspicious. i think at some point they are going to have to address these issues front and center because as it stands right now polls indicate that most people believe this needs further investigation and needs to be looked at. >> bill: the whistleblower apparently had some sort of professional connection with joe biden, that has been reported. also been reported the whistleblower wants to submit written answers. how would that work? >> yeah. good question. the first part of your question is very interesting. if the reporting is accurate,

it indicates that this individual may have been involved at the national security council on ukraine policy of which joe biden was point person for the white house. so there is a very real possibility that they worked closely together. we'll have to see what that evidence is. but the notion that a whistleblower can sort of make accusations and then not be questioned about those accusations strikes me as ridiculous and i think most people will think it's absurd that somebody can make claims about a very troubling phone call, use a lot of -- but then say i don't want to answer questions about it. i don't see how that will be able to stand. >> bill: we'll see if it flies in the end. rudy giuliani was in the news yesterday. apparently association with two men from overseas arrested at dulles airport with one way tickets out. what do you think is behind this arrest, peter?

>> it seems to be tied to the fact that these individuals were sending money to a pro-trump political pac, i believe it was. several members of congress the ending to be republicans. and that court case basically alleges that they weren't providing the fund. the funds were coming from someone else, which would be illegal. and i think further underlines the problems when you are dealing with ukraine. this goes back to the obama administration. the number one recipient or giver of money to the clinton foundation were donors from ukraine. then you have all the drama in 2016, you have paul manafort. the point is ukraine is a terribly corrupt country. they're trying to curry favor in the united states and i think in the case of hunter biden, the notion that he got this sweetheart deal is nothing to see is just contradicted by the fact that you have all these other actions going forward. we don't want ukrainian meddling in the united states and politics.

>> bill: i think that's enough for now. peter schweizer, thanks for running through all that. we'll bring you back soon live in tallahassee. a lot more to discuss. former house speaker newt gingrich and then the headliner devin nunes will join us next hour. we have a lot more questions for these gentlemen as well. >> sandra: mandatory evacuations underway as a fast moving wildfire threatens homes and closes freeways around the los angeles area. live images now from our reporter's camera. we'll take you there live in moments. >> bill: president trump wrapping up a feud with minnesota democrats last night. you heard and saw it as he looks to flip that blue state to red next year. the democratic party chair in minnesota will react to what went down last night coming up. orlando isn't just the theme park capital of the world, it also has the highest growth in manufacturing jobs in the us. it's a competition for the talent.

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>> president trump: minneapolis, you have a rotten mayor, a bad mayor, you have to change your mayor. >> bill: sample from last night. a tale of two cities in minneapolis. president trump inside and outside you had hundreds of protestors, some burning maga hats and chanting lock him up. kevin martin is the chairman of minnesota democratic party. thanks for being here. we had your counterpart yesterday. want to get your view today. what was happening outside the arena last night there, sir? >> well look, i wasn't involved in the protests. obviously we don't condone any type of violence. what you saw is a reflection of a deep frustration amongst america people and trump and his policies and the hate that he is bringing to communities throughout this country right now. it shouldn't surprise anyone what you are seeing. we don't condone violence. we don't condone violence in any way, shape or form and i

think that's unacceptable. but the president also has some culpability here. he spent most of his speech last night engaged in dividing america, pitting one group against the other. using vulgar tee instead of laying out a positive vision for what he and his party would improve people's lives he spent his speech attacking people, a tacking politicians, the media, attacking people in minnesota. there is no place for that in our political discourse. if we want people to be peaceful and protestors to be peaceful we also need to make sure the rhetoric we use doesn't insight people to violence. the president has some culpability here too. >> bill: he is doing quite well in minnesota which makes it a battleground in 2020. your state will get a lot of attention. you go back to 2016, a race that was really close. hillary clinton won it by 45,000 votes. how do you as democrats keep it blue in 2020?

>> well look, as you mentioned minnesota has a longest streak of voting for a democratic presidential nominee. we won't let that change in 2020. donald trump made no secret of the fact he believes this is his number one opportunity to flip a state that hillary won in 2016. the one thing that donald trump is not lying about is the fact that they're doing everything they can to try to make that happen this time. they have a significant ground game here. he has visited the state multiple times in the last year and making an attempt to flip this state. >> bill: it has not gone red since 1972. i know you know the history, i want to make one point here. i mentioned we had your counterpart from the rnc jennifer carnahan. she made the point here yesterday not as weak in the suburbs as people think. the suburbs south of

minneapolis and thinks it will carry him to victory in 2020. your counter point to that would be what as we understand the state today. >> i live in those suburbs in egan, minnesota. we've seen significant gains for the democrats throughout the suburban parts of this state. for donald trump to make up 45,000 votes he will have to do better in those parts of the state. the republicans here in minnesota including donald trump have proven incapable of appealing to those voerts. the last election the democratic party here ran the table in suburban legislative races an congressional races and flipped cd2 and 3, the reality is the minnesota democratic party is doing much better in the suburbs than the republican party. i'm not sure where donald trump thinks he will make up those 45,000 votes. i am confident we can keep minnesota blue despite the time, money and energy donald

trump has. >> bill: the reason you have a rally in october of 2019. maybe we get the two of you together and have a debate what's happening in minnesota. thank you for your time. >> happy to do it. thank you, bill. >> sandra: turkish forces continuing their invasion into syria now for a third straight day. now new concerns about what is happening to those hundreds of isis prisoners. up next the mother of one of the first american journalists murdered by isis joins us with her message for americans. my grandfather had an amazing life, but ancestry showed me

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we're taking some of the most dangerous isis fighters out. we've taken them out and we're putting them in different locations where it's secure. we wanted to make sure that nothing happened with them with respect to getting out. >> sandra: that was president trump earlier this week after the u.s. military moved some of the most dangerous isis prisoners out of northern syria amid the turkish invasion there. two of those terror suspects believed to be responsible for the murders of two american journalists, one was james foley. his mother, diane foley, joins us now. good morning. thank you for being here. i know you wanted to share some of your concerns about what is happening there and in particular these two isis prisoners. what do you want to see happen with them? >> well, i'm grateful that these two british jihadists are in custody and i'm hopeful that they will be brought to the united states and brought to

trial and if convicted, put away for the rest of their lives. however, i think it's important to remember that they are a small portion of the 10,000 isis fighters that have been captured and held along that border, along with 70,000 of their family members. so for them to go unguarded and be able to escape into our western world begs an international security risk. i'm very concerned about isis regrouping and reemerging. and as well as the humanitarian crisis. so it's a very bittersweet development for me. >> sandra: i know that you've said this is just hard to watch particularly you've said that since the u.s. decision to pull u.s. troops from the northern border of syria. you have been watching this

situation closely. this is the third day of this turkish invasion into that border there. your thoughts on that. >> exactly. i hate to see us abdicating our role as an international leader against the human rights atrocities that have been occurring in syria. i really feel all of these isis fighters need to be brought to trial and held accountable. otherwise terror will continue. baghdadi the leader of isis is very much at large and i think we come together as an international community to totally address and stop their crimes, they are going to regroup and continue their reign of terror.

i'm very concerned about this pull-out. >> sandra: finally, diane, what is your message for americans as you share your concerns about a potential isis comeback and your obvious concern for the protection of those kurds? >> well, i'm just concerned for all the people in that area. eight years of horrible fighting is more than any nation can endure and i feel as americans first of all we need to have the back of our brave americans who choose to go into the war be it journalists, aid workers and it's important to hold people accountable should they take our citizens and if she kill them. i applaud the trump administration for taking those few particular prisoners in custody. that's a first great step.

i'm hoping the rest of the international community will follow suit because the only way to stop terrorism is to bring these folks to trial and find out if they really are the cause of this horror. they should be -- have some consequences for that. >> sandra: our best to your family, diane foley, thank you for joining us this morning. thank you. >> appreciate it, sandra. thank you. >> bill: we're watching this in realtime now. 6:30 in the morning in california. the fast-moving wildfires are pushed forward by strong winds overnight. burning homes and causing closing of freeways across los angeles. president trump pulling no punches, big campaign rally last night. the first one since democrats launched their impeachment push further. newt gingrich reacts to what we heard last night. >> president trump: the democrats' brazen attempt to

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means there is available personnel and equipment, helicopters on this fire alone about a dozen different fingers. it is growing in many different directions. difficult to contain when winds are blowing like they are now. easily over 20 miles an hour where i'm at gusting to over 40. at this point it is burning out of control and here is a sound bite. >> we need people to leave now while they can. earlier this evening i was in areas that had been ordered evacuated and saw residents attempting with small hoses and other tools to combat a fire that was simply out of control. >> so the video you might see right now is east of l.a. we right now have possible power outages in four different counties, current county, san bernardino, ventura and l.a. the winds burning now in east l.a. in the valley as i said is

a wind-driven fire. they're putting power outages in several different areas, when the trees fall they can make an existing fire worse. we don't know how this one started. governor cut off power down here in southern california, 20,000 without power bill, send it back to you. >> bill: gusts are what where you are? how strong? >> you know, it's not hurricane-force but it is gusting quite a bit. i would say 40 mile-an-hour gusts, something like that. >> bill: william, take care. 6:30 in the morning as the sun comes up on what could be a very difficult day. william la jeunesse thank you north of los angeles. >> president trump: nancy pelosi said a day before seeing the transcript of the call with

the ukrainian president, we've got to impeach him. we've got to impeach him. so they know they can't win the 2020 election. so they are pursuing the insane impeachment witch hunt. the do-nothing democrat extremists have gone so far left that they believe it should not be a crime to cross our border illegally and it should be a crime to have a totally appropriate casual, beautiful, accurate phone call with a foreign leader. i don't think so. >> sandra: that was president trump last night going on the attack in minnesota holding his first campaign rally since house democrats opened a formal impeachment inquiry. let's bring in newt gingrich former speaker of the house and fox news contributor. you saw the president last night. what do you make of his strategy to go hard, go on the attack against democrats over impeachment?

>> well, look, i don't think he has much choice. he has either got to say oh, this is all really fair or he has to say they are consistently cheating. i think it's clear from his perspective, and i would argue historically it will be clear, that this is all crazy. i thought that senator sass of nebraska captured it when he said that this is a partisan clown show describing what the democrats are doing. sass is not a big automatic pro-trump guy but he captured how bad things are in the house, how really out of control they are and in a way if you look at what is happening in ukraine, the fact is there are serious questions about corruption in ukraine. it is legitimate to ask questions about that corruption and there are a lot of questions that need to be answered. i think the democrats are terrified that if the president is actually able to pursue

this, that in fact it will change the whole nature of our understanding of what happened over the last few years. >> sandra: here is your opinion piece published on foxnews.com. newt gingrich writes the resistance against trump began the day he was elected. this is not an impeachment process. you can go back to the headlines from the morning after the president was officially elected. the president of the united states and see that impeachment was already being talked about and already in the headlines. >> it's astonishing. he is declared the winner at 2:30 in the morning and the next day you have eight or nine cities where left wingers have organized anti-trump rallies. by december 15th you have a "vanity fair" article about how the impeachment process is underway. and on the very day that the president is sworn in, january 20th, 2017, the "washington post" has a story about the

democrats planning for impeachment. so nancy pelosi is simply carrying out what is an unconstitutional effort to use the power of the congress to change the outcome for the american people. it is a direct assault on the whole idea of representing the american people and instead imposing democratic members of congress as the ultimate electoral college. i think it will backfire very badly. the president in minnesota was in a state where colin peterson is a long-time democrat. his district voted for trump by 30 points. i think it will be very hard for peterson to go with nancy pelosi, vote for impeachment and get reelected. she is going to put a lot of people in that kind of a choice. >> sandra: it will be interesting to watch. meanwhile the president was inside conducting that rally, a crowd of protestors were gathering outside. what did you make of what you saw happening outside of that rally last night?

>> well, i think it tells you where the country is. we are as close to a cultural civil war as we have been since the 1860s. you have people very deeply divided. they have literally live in two different realities. and i think that you have sort of the pro-impeachment left desperate to get to trump led by "the new york times" and "washington post", and then the major networks. then you have millions of people for whom trump is the first president to really stand up for what they think their values are. and so that's why he consistently is in the 43 to 45 or 46% range of approval. those people don't care about the noise. they see a guy who they think delivered on the economy, delivered on conservative judges. delivering on standing up for america, and they are very prepared to tolerate whatever the marginal problems are

because they think he is the first time they've seen in their lifetime with the guts to stand up to the establishment. >> sandra: you've made it clear what the president's strategy should be a year out from the next election. mr. speaker, how do you think the president is doing since the democrats launched this formal impeachment inquiry? how do you think he is doing? >> i think overall he is doing fine. on occasion i think that he would be better off to edit his tweets. i think at times he picks fights he doesn't need or says things that are stronger than he needs to say them. but he is a natural counter puncher and has been doing that since the 1980s when he used to fight constantly with page 6 in new york. i don't think we'll talk him out of it. it's very simple. one, the economy has to keep doing pretty well and if the economy is doing pretty well he will probably get reelected. two, ultimately he has to convince the country, i think the senate republicans will

help him convince the country, that this entire effort by nancy pelosi and the left wing is totally wrong and totally against the constitution, has no basis in merit and three, he simply has to identify how crazy the left wing of the democratic party is. when they say, for example, that they want to have totally open borders. that would mean millions of people. when they say as elizabeth warren did the other night she favors paying welfare to people who are here illegally or providing free healthcare to people who are here illegal or what happened in the house, where all but 10 democrats voted to put illegal immigrants ahead of veterans. as that sinks into the country the radicalism will defeat an amazing number of democrats next year. >> sandra: former speaker of the house newt gingrich, we appreciate your time this morning. >> bill: we're watching this

camera live from the hill. breaking news on what be the key witness, marie yovanovitch have arrived, whether she show for the closed door interview? we could be very close to an answer around that corner of that hallway very soon. >> sandra: nbc executives feeling the heat at matt lauer responds to shocking new allegations against him. howie kurtz will join us on that next.

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executives after allegations of sexual assault of matt lauer and claims of a cover-up at the network. want to bring in howard kurtz. good morning to you. apparently we can report there was a meeting yesterday at nbc and there was apparently anger and resentment is what has been reported. what can we say about that? >> i'm hearing there is a lot of anger and resentment among the rank and file over nbc's handling of this with the new revelations in farrow's book that they were horrified to hear about the -- farrow is reporting nbc engaged in numerous women there over a half dozen years. some settlements involved lair, that adds strength to the argument that top executives looked the other way and we learn that harvey weinstein

pressuring the network to drop farrow's expo say of his sexual misconduct was threatening to expose the alleged misconduct of matt lauer. >> bill: is there a suggestion there could be terminations at nbc? will anybody be fired or can you go that far? >> there is certainly no official suggestion. you have a lot of these little details like a friendly exchange of emails between harvey weinstein and oppenheim and later weinstein sent oppenheim a bottle of grey goose vodka. i don't think anybody will be fired at this point. lauer has been gone from network television for almost two years. the story has faded. and to just look at it from a cold hearted business perspective comcast needs to look and say nbc news shows a doing well in the ratings.

>> bill: lawyer -- lauer comes out with the open letter and he said nothing for two years. part of what he said. he said my silence has been a mistake two years after being fired by nbc. old stories are being recycled. details added and new allegations being made. all are being spread as part of a promotional effort to sell a brook. the story is filled with false details. nothing could be further from the truth. he concluded by saying you will no longer be sheltered with my silence. she came back and said that's victim shaming. did ronan farrow clarify any of this? >> the former nbc news staffer brooke nevils is speaking on the record. matt lauer is right. it was a mistake for him to say nothing about these and other allegations for nearly two years. his side of it is that even

though she says she was very drunk. this was a consensual encounter in his hotel room at the 2014 sochi olympics and other sexual encounters after that and she was a willing participant, i can't litigate that. i do think ronan farrow fact checked it and included lauer's version and that he finds the allegation to be credible. that's where it is right now with lauer trying to redeem his reputation after maintaining the silence. >> bill: the next chapter in the book. thank you in washington today. see you sunday. >> sandra: the nba facing more heat after shutting down a reporter asking a question about the ongoing situation in china. the latest on the nba's china problem with jared max next.

>> the nba has always been a league that prides itself on its players and coaches being able to speak out. i just wanted to ask the events of this week and the fallout we've seen whether you would both feel differently about speaking out in that way in future. >> excuse me, we're only taking basketball questions. >> it's a legitimate question. it is an event that happened this week for the nba. >> that was happening yesterday in japan, a cnn reporter was shut down after asking a question about the nba controversy with china to james hardin. the nba canceled media availabilities for the rest of its asian tour.

let's bring in jared max. that raised a few eyebrows. >> the nba doesn't want its players to get in hot water situation. the nba saying in a statement that the players have been placed in a complicated and unprecedented situation abroad that we believe would be unfair to ask them to address these matters in realtime. i think this also weighs into steve kerr in the spotlight this week he says he was the shiny piece president trump was calling out on this day. steve kerr has been outspoken about issues in the united states and not oversees. steve kerr says i'll talk about what i'm comfortable and what i know topics about. >> sandra: he said i'm comfortable talking about what's going on in our country. i'm a citizen of this kun traoe. hard for me to make a comment that impacts people in different countries and different governments and not comfortable being in the midst of it. it makes more sense to lay low.

>> look at the international incident that daryl morey sent out an innocent tweet. fight for freedom. why would anybody want to weigh in. why is china so up in arms about this? have to consider they had ming, the biggest basketball star in houston. the nba globalization is building and ming is the head of the china basketball association. the rockets are china's team and they've been scorned. you can't find a rockets jersey in china. nba nike shoes are being taken off. they want to be disassociated with something and say not us. >> sandra: what is your sense of where this is going as -- >> i can't wait for our guys to come home. it is time to come home and stop playing games and reassess where they go.

what we learned in this last week while people fight wars over religion we pray to that one god, the dollar bill. the nba got pulled in by it and they're trying to backtrack and make sense of it. >> sandra: jared max, good to see you. >> bill: they'll have to answer questions when they get home, too. minutes from now we're waiting for the former ukraine ambassador named in the whistleblower complaint to arrive on the hill for the interview behind closed doors. the headliner is devin nunes, the ranking republican on the house intel committee. we'll put our questions to him when we continue. top of the hour, come on back.

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guaranteed monthly income for life. nooooo! >> sandra: another key witness in the democrats' impeachment inquiry any moment now expected on capitol hill. the fired u.s. ambassador to ukraine is expected to meet with lawmakers behind closed doors. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm sandra smith. i was going to ask for now she is expected. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. we believe she'll show. a d.c. mystery whether or not marie yovanovitch would show up or not after the white house vowed not to cooperate with the investigation. her very credibility is an issue. >> she is a holdover from the obama years and allegations in 2016 the u.s. embassy in ukraine was trying to help the clinton campaign. so i think the question is if

she cess testifies, will she be pressed on that. >> bill: our complete coverage begins now. devin nunes ranking republican stands by with reaction. mike emanuel watching from the hill. let's begin with you in washington >> the house committees but not clear if the state department would allow her. she is the former u.s. ambassador from ukraine removed from her post but uncertainty whether she would show today. she is still a state department employee with ukraine the focus of the impeachment probe, lawmakers from the three house committees are anxious to question her. then next week lawmakers are expected to hear from fiona hill, the top aide and russia and europe. the trump administration officials could be considering exerting executive privilege to stop by testifying. she is expected to appear for a closed door deposition monday.

house committees are asking her to hand over documents. then there is u.s. ambassador to the european unwilliam taylo text message saying there was no quid pro quo on the ukraine matter. sondland was told not to appear for a deposition before the house committees. the committees subpoenaed him to testify and now expected to appear on the hill. attorneys for sondland saying notwithstanding the state department's current direction to not testify ambassador sondland will honor the committee's subpoena and will testify on thursday. the committees also want ambassador sondland to bring documents. his attorneys are saying they aren't his to provide, talk to the state department. >> bill: mike emanuel watching that move on the hill. thank you. >> sandra: a good place to start with our headliner this morning. republican congressman devin nunes ranking member of the house intelligence committee joins us now. good morning. we're awaiting yovanovitch on

capitol hill. do you expect that she shows? >> well, this is a little bit like playing whack-a-mole. we never know when the witnesses will actually show up. we're prepared and as you had in your report, we have a lot of concerns about this witness. it was well-known. we've had several both former u.s. officials and current u.s. officials come to us and tell us that this was a very partisan ambassador. somebody that was not just supporting the clintons when clinton was running telling the ukrainians that clinton was going to win. but also once trump won was badmouthing the trump administration in ukraine to ukrainians and state department staff. so she has a lot to answer for. we're looking forward to questioning her this morning. >> bill: i have two questions. what will she share about all this? because she was in the middle of a lot of it, it would appear. why aren't you there?

>> well, let's start with the second question why am i not there? we didn't know if she was going to actually show up or not. we still don't know if she will show up or not. what we're doing, there is no format for this process, a faux investigation, all right? we never know when witnesses will be there. there are three committees involved. so what we're doing is we're taking the members that are closer to washington so they can get there faster. i'm on the west coast. we just don't know how many of these witnesses will come forward. this is not a real process. >> bill: what is the question that you would want her to answer if you were there? >> well, our lawyers are all prepared and the them members and we're preparing for this witness over the last few days. we'll want to get her on the record did she support the trump administration? did she really say these negative things about the trump

administration? was she looking at journalists? was she monitoring journalists in the united states? these are all questions that we want answers to. and so -- you have to remember i want everybody to understand this is such a -- they are trying to use this for impeachment, okay? even in the russia hoax, okay, the investigation that i had to run we gave the democrats every single witness that they wanted. every single one. in this case they aren't giving republicans any witness. we don't know the rules. we don't even know if the witness is going to show up or not show up. it is -- i'm trying to think of something worse than circus. maybe it's just like a chaotic circus. >> sandra: we've heard a lot from your party questioning the process by which democrats are trying to impeach the president. do you expect the house to take up a vote on this?

>> i do. i don't see this as a real impeachment. but let's try to go back. a lot of people are saying well, people don't -- they hear bad things in the press. what is this all about? i always go back to the beginning. the russia hoax originated in ukraine from democrats -- the democratic national committee and clinton campaign who paid for dirt from ukrainians and russians, okay? that's the very thing that they are accusing trump of doing. so remember, donald trump is under investigation because the democrats got information from foreigners, fed it to the f.b.i. where they opened up an active investigation. i just dismiss outright that there is any problem about president trump or his personal attorney. he is being investigated by the f.b.i. because of the democrats. if he is over in ukraine saying what's going on here and where

did this come from, he has every right to do that. remember, they said they had more than circumstantial evidence of trump colluding with russians. where are the russians? the only russians and ukrainians we know of are the ones that were working directly with the democrats. so i just reject this whole thing. they are trying to speed to impeachment is what is they're trying to do. they aren't running a traditional impeachment. >> bill: bring it back to today's witness. why would the white house block others from being interviewed and allow this former ambassador to do that knowing that she is still an employee of the state department and the u.s. government? >> well, my guess here is this is somebody that the democrats have been coordinating with. let's not pretend this ambassador hasn't been working with the democrats. that's been happening. she is a democrat. she is a partisan. it is well documented, okay? so that's why what is being reported this morning in some

circles is that the democrats issued a soft subpoena. well, that's because she wants to be able to tell the state department i'm going to go ahead and listen to the subpoena. the trump administration what they said in the long letter that said if you're running an impeachment investigation we aren't going to participate in this nonsense unless you vote to have the house have a real inquiry. what's happening is that some partisan bureaucrats and former obama people and trump people are going to testify because they are working behind the scenes with the democrats on the house intelligence committee. >> sandra: why did the white house not stop this witness? >> well, my guess is that there is some legal reason why this witness want -- i don't even know what the soft subpoena is, but wanted a subpoena. i think they called it a friendly subpoena.

i assume there is some legal way she is subpoenaed in a different way she can come and testify. they wants to come testify. they'll leak all this out. by tonight i promise you every mainstream media will have bombshell after bombshell that came out today in the hearing how bad trump was and how bad giuliani was and this career 30 year diplomat had all these concerns about the trump administration and the president and rudy giuliani. that's what you'll see in every channel and newspaper across this country? why? the mainstream media has been on it from the beginning trying to overturn the 2016 election. and we can go on and on and take the whole show with this topic. >> bill: let's deal with the whistleblower here in the final minute we have. the former acting a.g. matthew whitaker on whether or not there is anonymity necessary in the case. >> you are guaranteed you can't

be retaliated against. there is no reason -- i think the idea that this person wouldn't be safe i think is sort of ridiculous. this person is making a huge allegation against the president of the united states on derivative information from a phone call we've already seen the evidence. i think they should have to testify and stand in front of the american people and most importantly congress and answer these questions. >> bill: let's see if it comes to that. the reason we bring that up there is reporting today suggesting the whistleblower wants to testify with written answers. would that ever fly in an impeachment inquiry in a united states congress? >> it doesn't fly to be a whistleblower, okay? the whistleblower already submitted his or her testimony. and it was false because the whistleblower did not say on the form that he had actually come to congress before. so the only people that don't

know who the whistleblower is are the republicans on the committee and most americans. all the mainstream media, they know the whistleblower. for god sakes "the new york times" basically identified the whistleblower because they gave all the clues that you would need in order to track who the whistleblower was. so the idea that we're hiding this, this whistleblower needs to stay in hiding for his or her protection is as nine. nobody believes that and it is not traou. you'll be protected. i want to make sure whistleblowers are protected, okay? you can't just hide. you can't go to the democrats on the committee and later -- a week ago they were saying the reason that the whistleblower couldn't come forward is because republicans were going to out the whistleblower. this is already after "the new york times" outed the whistleblower. i'm not believing much of what the whistleblower is saying. they have the right to come forward but they'll come forward in person and testify and answer all the questions like when did you begin to

coordinate with the democrats? that's where we'll start. >> sandra: we've also seen and heard a lot of adam schiff chairman of the house intelligence committee and mark meadows, the congressman has made it very clear that and the house freedom caucus. we spoke to him yesterday, the house freedom caucus has said adam schiff should be removed from leading this investigation. is he capable of conducting a fair investigation, congressman? >> well, i would start with what i was kind of getting to earlier. this is a faux investigation. a fake investigation. they've weaponized the house intelligence committee which is supposed to be overlooking the 17 agencies and they've turned it into this fake impeachment committee, okay, where they are keeping everything from the american people, everything is being done in the scif. everything is being done behind closed doors. nancy pelosi controls all the people on this committee. we can't talk about supposedly

what happens behind closed doors. so i just reject out of it. what adam chiffon the democrats on the house intelligence committee should do is lead the committee in investigating what we should be looking at which is overseeing our nation's military intelligence and domestic and our civilian intelligence programs, right? we have a lot of agencies we're supposed to be overseeing. >> bill: we can now confirm she has arrived. so that leads us to believe that this interview, as planned, will happen. >> sandra: she being marie yovanovitch. she is the former ambassador to ukraine. there has been questions, congressman. we asked you was she still expected to arrive and here she is walking through the door. she will go through security and now enter for her planned transcribed interview before members of congress. congressman, if you want to jump in here as we watch her arrive on tapp hill. >> well yeah, what you are

going to see here this is all for show, right? this is part of the show trial. is she going to come or not going to come? that really harms us. we can't get all of our members from all over the country back to question the witness. we'll have really good members there, mark meadows and jim jordan will be there and scott perry will be there. we'll be ready to ask her the questions. i will just tell you, mark my words, there will be leaks within the next few hours where she is going to have bombshells and by tonight on the news you will be -- there is going to be all the little sound bites she has been working on and planning and coordinating. they will be reported on here this evening. and this is all to drive and build the narrative towards impeachment. >> yovanovitch was born in canada. fluent in russian. recalled from her post in ukraine in may. a government employee as we mentioned there. member of the u.s. state

department. as we wait for her to round the corner and appear here, these interviews have lasted almost an entire day thus far. some of them have stretched eight, nine hours. you've been inside for a lot of these interviews. how much is productive if you are spending nine hours on a singular topic? or is it reverse? is it a fact of discovery actually that would extend the length of time that you need to take to get the answers that will satisfy both sides? >> so that's a great question. the answer is that it doesn't take much more than usually within a couple hours. you may need to go as much as four hours, okay? but what we've seen from the democrats both in the russia hoax investigation and now their extension of that

investigation with these witnesses that they're calling in, when the witness doesn't give them what they wanted, okay, so i.e. volker, right, what happened last week when ambassador volker came in, this was going to be the bombshell of bombshells. he was going to give up all the dirt. he came in and within the first 30 or 40 minutes he didn't give them what they wanted, okay? so then what they did. we had asked our questions. and then they stretched it out i think it was reported as nine when we actually looked at it, it was 10 hours. then what they did is started to go over and over and over and try to trap the witness, ambassador volker into a perjury trap. tried to get him to go back on what he had said before. they were asking the same questions over and over. if you go back and look at the transcript, i think of the 10 hours, i think republicans maybe only took about two hours of that time. so the rest of the time was

trying to get -- capture somebody in a perjury trap. >> sandra: just a minute left and we're watching this live shot on capitol hill here. we saw marie yovanovitch enter the building a short time ago. our expectation she would walk down this hallway. she could have entered the room in a different entrance. we'll watch that. going back to the question we were asking you initially. knowing that the white house said they were not going to comply with any of the democrats what they called unconstitutional proceedings and we saw the blocking of sondland's testimony earlier in the week, i guess there is some confusion why -- we're seeing her again, the witness is entering here. why did the white house not block this interview? >> well, my guess is that they gave that direction. i'm only going off of historically what i know how this process works. i don't know about today's

exactly why it's going down this way. i'm guessing the white house told everybody that hey, if you work for us, we're not going to support you going in. i'm guessing that's why they gave this so-called friendly subpoena because this witness has been working with the democrats so they gave her what they are calling a friendly subpoena and so then she is using some legal maneuver so she can come and testify. she wants to come and testify and out there in front. she wants to be part of the show trial. so -- i think the same thing -- >> sandra: so did sondland. we're going to keep watching this congressman. we're up against a commercial break here and appreciate your time this morning and staying through the breaking news. >> bill: thank you, sir, devin nunes out of california. see what we hear in a moment. >> sandra: u.s. and china back at the bargaining table for a second straight day now but this time president trump will be participating directly in

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you are seeing. >> well, we have a teamworking out of northeastern syria and when the military offensive started a couple of days ago, they reported immediate violence along the entire 700 kilometer border between turkey and syria. what they are telling us is that the scale of this violence means that tens of thousands, if not more, are fleeing south to get out of the cities and out of range of the artillery, air strikes and what they are saying are also ground troops including tanks. >> bill: it has been said turkey will advance only to a certain degree inside of syria based on miles, how far is that? >> they've said that, but they started this offensive by attacking three positions deep in the south. those were kurdish positions and i assume that they were

attacked in order to slow the possibility of defense by the sdf, syrian defense forces. so they say that they will only advance so far to provide a corridor. none of the kurds believe that. and as the reports that we've been getting suggest that they won't stop at that corridor boundary. >> bill: what is your sense for how long this could last? >> i'm sorry, i don't know how long this could last. and i don't really have a good guess. what we do know is that as these attacks started, within 24 hours our team said that well over 100,000 civilians had fled the cities and the border areas in order to go south towards raqqa and other areas for shelter. this morning just a few minutes ago i got another message from

our team in syria and they said that the number is far over 100,000. i know the reported numbers by u.n. agency and the i.r.c. suggest a smaller number. i'm just reporting on what we've heard from our team. >> sandra: steve, as far as getting a clear picture of what is happening on the ground there, we've been showing while you've been talking some of the pictures and some of the videos that you and your team have shared with us. tell us about some of those. >> well, you can see that there are cars clogging the major arteries out of the cities. those are kurdish people with their families and friends and whoever else they can put in their cars headed south. they are heading south either to the shelters or homes of loved ones or friends, or they are taking shelter in schools and existing public buildings. remember, most of the public buildings were already flattened by isis during their

occupation. there aren't that many buildings standing. but where there are, these kurdish civilians are seeking shelter. and then our team says that there are also tens of thousands that are just wandering south and don't have any shelter at all. these are the ones we're targeting to help. >> bill: how big is your team and how much help can you offer, steve? >> in syria we have one full-time staff member and a team that he has put together specifically for this crisis. that team will be between 20 and 30 people. our team overall is 75 full-time staff members and the amount of delivery that we can make depends on the amount of money we're able to send. >> sandra: steve, i was having a reaction as i was bringing up a picture of a little girl. she must be six or seven years old. tell us about her. >> yeah. well, that picture is a very clear description of why we do

what we do at partners relief and development. she was a 7-year-old girl and her picture was one of the first ones that our team got from our team. she was one of the first casualty pictures we got and the picture was overwhelming because of the carnage in her lower leg. in the picture you may think she didn't survive that injury. she was rushed to the hospital where her leg was amputated and we have received pictures of her now recovering and she survived. that 7-year-old girl, that's why we do what we do. >> bill: steve, good luck. thank you for your time. steve out of irvine, california reporting on what is happening at the moment. 28 past the hour now. in a moment we'll shift our focus to the election of 2020. is it a case of deja vu for --

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>> they're trying to use this for impeachment, okay? even in the russia hoax, okay, the investigation that i had to run, we gave the democrats every single witness that they wanted. every single one. in this case they aren't giving republicans any witness. we don't even know the rules. >> bill: so devin nunes a moment ago with us. the latest witnessed the fired ambassador from ukraine arriving on the will.

juan williams is our next guest. shelby holliday, video reporting for the "wall street journal" and ed rollins, manager for the reagan campaign. >> i like popular ed. >> i was one of his big sources. >> keep quiet. >> bill: i know that story. we talked about it. the senior statesman what's up? >> the members will come back. been home for a couple of weeks now and all revved up. the fight has started. i don't care what pelosi and the rest of them saying they'll vote on impeachment and try to take what they get out of today as sort of a trigger to spin it. and i think it's important for people viewers, 2/3 of the ambassadors are foreign service. a third are political. governors, big donors, what have you. it is not unusual for foreign service people to have a different point of view. she was appointed by obama

originally and to a certain extent the one unforgivable sin is badmouthing the president. you're appointed by the president. >> i keep checking my phone to see if anything changed. it is interesting she is there. last week we saw the trump administration block another ambassador in the same sort of capacity. interesting they are allowing her to go forward and speak at least for now. >> i don't think they are allowing her to leave. she is with the brookings institute. >> they aren't claiming any privilege. >> bill: my understanding is she is still an employee of the federal government. executive branch could block her. juan, what's going on? >> she is willing to take the risk. i imagine she must be taking the risk for some reason. that's why shelby is checking her phone. we wonder what is going to happen. it is clear from what we know that the president's men, rudy

giuliani and the two men out of dulles yesterday were willing to make payments to american members of congress as part of that effort. they wanted her out. she was not supporting the idea that somehow there should be relationship between request for dirt on joe biden and his son and military aid to the ukraine. >> bill: funny you should mention that. shall we go to minneapolis? roll the tape from last night. 20,000 inside. >> president trump: where is hunter? i want to see hunter. hunter, you know nothing about energy or nothing about china or nothing about anything, frank li. hunter, you are a loser, why did you get 1.5 billion dollars, hunter? >> what bothers me having run a lot of campaigns, this is ugly. this is going to get real ugly with a year to go here. you will end up with riots in

the street. the president loves the crowds. he gets them revved up but when he throws these lines out other issues to discuss is positive things but you will get things heated up more. >> sandra: with the exception of name calling he is asking a lot of people are asking? where is hunter biden? >> it's a political rally. trump's opportunity to talk about the economy and how great things are. the sound bite getting played is about hunter biden. the fox news polls that the president didn't particularly love. two times as many voters say they are more uncomfortable with trump's dealing with ukraine in recent months than they are with biden's dealings with ukraine when he was vice president. this whole effort to bring hunter to light. hunter is not even his opponent. his father is. the whole effort to put this alleged scandal in the limelight is backfiring on trump in many ways.

majority of voters now vote impeachment. >> bill: we put it to pete schweizer. here is how he answered that. >> if you look at the way the bidens handled this issue is not answer any questions. hunter biden is somewhere allegedly in california and i think when you sort of generate more heat than actual light on these important issues people become suspicious. i think at some point they are going to have to address these issues front and center. >> bill: on the last point he is probably not wrong. when and how you do it. >> it's true. hunter biden talked to a reporter a couple months ago and i will tell you everything and i'm done. so far he appears to stick with the strategy. we may see him as the pressure ramps up. >> he is not done. his name -- the kinds of things that he did and biden's brother basically the day biden got

elected was a lobbyist did some things that won't sell to the american public. >> sandra: ukraine smoke and mirrors. no substance behind the accusation democrats claim is impeachable but she has a message to republicans. republicans will be tempted to keep jumping down the rabbit holes. they would be better off noting that the central players in the episode in the written record have already refuted the complaint and that anything further is theater. no different from the russia collusion hype. >> i think that's not true. what we've seen from the whistleblower is now corroborated by what the president has released in terms of that letter. indicating that he asked for a favor here i'm quoting the word favor and there was a request in terms of getting dird on joe biden and joe biden's son and the whole thing about crowd strike and how it started and investigation into russia interference in the 2016 campaign. allow me tore a second to go

back what was being discussed by these two. i think if i would say who should show up, i think it's joe biden. i wonder why joe biden hasn't been more aggressive and effective in refuting this. peter schweizer what he wrote, joe biden and his son did nothing criminal. he questions it. he says well, why is the son getting this big contract with china, with the ukraine? you know what? it is insinuation and smear, very political. >> bill: your point is well taken. he needs to answer it. >> i would like him to be more effective. you look back at hillary clinton, bill. you think hillary clinton didn't take it seriously when they started this email. oh, please, that's nothing. nothing will come of it. it smeared her. it ruined her. >> bill: columbus ohio next week. let's see how he handles it. >> sandra: up next u.s. history full of breathtaking achievements and leaders and

the embodiment of the american spirit. previous generations seem like giants. when did we become so small. victor david hansen is our guest next. >> because we as americans have the capacity now as we've had in the past to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom. do you have concerns about mild memory loss related to aging? prevagen is the number one pharmacist-recommended memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life.

>> we choose to go to the moon and do the other things. not because they are easy, but because they are hard. >> sandra: that was a legendary moment in our country's history. now with the relentless flow of news it can be tough to focus on where we stand as a nation. our next guest has a new op-ed titled members of a previous generation now seem like giants. when did we become so small in

victor davis hansen senior fellow at the hoover institution. welcome to you. tell us the point of your piece and why you wrote it. >> i think we all enjoy this infrastructure we inherited. the bay bridge, hoover dam, panama canall and other things but we don't know who built it or don't know the names of people and critical of prior generations that were environmentally incorrect or ravaged the countryside but we use these infrastructures every single day and when we're asked to keep them up or to build new ones or to extend them for a growing population we can't do it. we haven't been to the moon in 48 years. i don't think we can go again. we don't have the will power or the knowledge perhaps. when the california bay bridge collapsed during the earthquake, just one quarter of it broke. it took us 11 years to repair it when the original bridge was done for less than half that

cost in four years. i'm sitting here in california where they cross the sierra, eastern part of the trans con nental railroad in six years. we haven't laid one track of the high speed rail project after 10 years and $10 billion. there is something wrong with us. we're walking among the ruins of people we don't know but gave us all this stuff but we aren't going to pass it onto to our children in the same generous fashion. >> bill: we like to say in new york the empire state building was built and finished in 13 month. a lobby of a hotel across the street it takes them two years. a labor issue in 1930. brooklyn and queens were saying give me the money. our ancestors were builders,

pioneers and fearless. we're regulators, adjudicators, plaintiffs, defendants, social media junkies and thin skilled. a distant generation created. we mostly delay, idle and gripe. you are describing a system that's comatose. is it really that bad? >> i think so. we have this idea because we can communicate across the globe in a nanosecond on email or social media or look up anything we need on google that we can be perfect. we're flawed human beings and the extension of that is if we're not perfect we're not good. let's not attempt anything. so we have sort of a self-induced -- we inherited so much. we inherited all this infrastructure and we thought it was a 19th century stuff or early 20th century and we've gone beyond that. we don't maintain it or expand it. at the end of the cold war with

globalization there was so much wealth created here in silicon valley. $4 trillion in market capitalization. people thought we're so wealthy we've reached the end of history, we have time to speculate or time to discuss other issues and we don't need to get back to muscular labor and getting dirty and building roads. the result is we can't go on the freeway, the power is now out in 800,000 people here in california voluntarily -- we don't -- we haven't kept up our transmission lines. that's for 19th century people. when we look back at this giants, mostly it's in criticism. we topple statues, rename roads, say the creators of buildings and parks were somehow racist or sexist or class enemies. it is a funny generation.

it is so critical of the past and yet when you adjudicate its own achievements it's found wanting by any historical measure. >> bill: thank you for coming in. great to have you. victor davis hansen. have a great weekend. we have brand-new reaction from the white house and the president on the trade deal with china. charles payne is next. going to make some money, 391, wow. t near 50-year lows. one call to newday usa can save you $2,000 every year. and once you refinance, the savings are automatic. thanks to your va streamline refi benefit, at newday there's no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. activate your va streamline benefit now. at humana, we believe your healthcare should evolve with you. and part of that evolution

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>> bill: fox business alert. the dow soaring up 400 points. there might be some headway on the trade deal with china. here is charles payne host of making money. big meeting this afternoon. lay it out. >> 2:45 president trump and the vice premier of china get together. it feels like this is sort of -- there will be some agreements to some things today that will make the tone a lot better, a lot more conciliatory. today could be the inflection point toward the ultimate deal we're looking for. >> sandra: a lot of questions over how big that deal may be. how small it could be. but markets seem to just want a deal. want some sort -- >> bill: i'm not using the word deal. it is nt a deal per se. chapter 13 in the long running book toward the ultimate deal. but i think this is the

inflection point toward we fell off. doing pretty good early in the year, may things fell apart. this gets us back on track and there will be goodwill gestures between both sides to change the narrative. >> bill: you have the china thing working. consumer sentiments. >> wall street was expecting and intriguing. consumers anticipate their highest wage jump in 20 years. in other words, people anticipate making a lot more money. i have to tell you it's 2/3 lower household incomes in this country. very positive. the 29% are worried about trade. it was 35%. 3% are worried about impeachment. 5% wore aoefd about the gm. the american consumer is so smart that they are paying attention to everything and they are putting that. what matters more to them than anything else right now is job security, higher wages. it's working. we have a pretty good day right now.

>> bill: job security and wages. >> a good one-two combination. >> sandra: see you at 2:00. breaking news in the whistleblower controversy. fox news now confirming the person at the center of that controversy would like to submit written testimony. that is a big development. chris wallace will take it up after the break. stay tuned for a brand-new hour. aetna takes a total approach to your health and wellness

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>> sandra: fox news alert. we've just confirmed lawyers for the whistleblower who sparked an impeachment inquiry have asked the house committees to allow their client to testify in writing rather than appear in person in order to protect his or her identity. so far the committees have not responded but we'll bring you more on that as we get it. and right now the fired u.s. ambassador to ukraine appearing for a closed door transcribed interview with house lawmakers after president trump calls out corrupt politicians in his first rally since democrats launched a formal impeachment inquiry. it happened last night. welcome to a new hour this morning "america's newsroom." thank you for joining us, i'm sandra smith. good >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. he said she is a rogue state department employee. fired amidday ledgeed attempts by trump's personal attorney to press ukraine to investigate

joe biden and his son, hunter. here is what nunes said about the democratics impeachment push. >> they're trying to use this for impeachment, okay? even in the russia hoax, the investigation i had to run, we gave the democrats every single witness that they wanted. every single one. in this case they aren't giving republicans any witness. we don't even know the rules. we don't even know if the witness is going to show up or not show up. >> bill: catherine herridge has the latest from the hill. let's get to you as we begin a new hour. hello. >> good morning. just an hour ago the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch arrived here on capitol hill. she did not take reporter questions and she is in a secure facility behind me at this hour doing a transcribed interview. this interview is not under oath but if she were to lie or mislead investigators the same penalties would attach.

those who support yovanovitch say that she is an excellent career diplomat. she believes in process and procedure and that she butted heads with the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani over the investigation of allegations of corruption in ukraine. but there is another side to this story. a texas republican pete sessions wrote a letter last year to the secretary of state mike pompeo saying that he had heard yovanovitch had been disparaging the trump administration in the course of her duties. sessions issued a statement to reporters yesterday that reads after several congressional colleagues reported me the current u.s. ambassador yovanovitch was disparaging president trump to others as part of the official duties i brought a letter to the secretary of state to refer the matter directly. i believe that political appointees should not be disparaging the president while serving overseas. we also got confirmation this morning that a key witness in

the ukraine controversy the u.s. ambassador to the european aoun on, gordon sondland will give a transcript next week. he said allegations of a quid pro quo, military aid for investigation of the bidens were not correct and the president was very clear on that point. sondland's attorney said notwithstanding the state department's current direction to not testify the ambassador will honor the subpoena and looks forward to testifying thursday. he has at all times acted with integrity. no agenda apart from answering the committee's questions fully and truthfully. we've been able to confirm the lawyers for the whistleblower have asked the committees that they would like their client to answer questions in a written format. as you know, bill, the democrats have been considering

some extraordinary steps to protect the identity of the whistleblower obscuring their voice, masking their face. but this is sort of another step in that direction. the problem in my experience is that with very controversial issues every single lawmaker wants the ability to go back for the follow-up question and written answers would not allow for that, bill. >> bill: clarification noted on that. we'll see how far it goes, if it does. catherine herridge on the hill. >> sandra: let's bring in "fox news sunday" anchor chris wallace. marie yovanovitch has arrived on capitol hill behind closed doors with lawmakers. what do we know about her and what do we expect will come of this today? >> well, we know that she was a highly respected member of the foreign service and had been named as the ambassador to ukraine and then ran across or against rudy giuliani and some

of his people including the two folks that were arrested yesterday out of dulles airport with one way tickets out of the country and were charged with campaign violations. and -- but in addition there was also as kathryn mentioned some people in the administration or in congress, republicans who said she was disparaging president trump. one of the issues is apparently she was not happy with the effort of rudy giuliani and people around him including those two associates who were jailed to push a story which really is very controversial and not at all substantiated that somehow the dnc servers were never hacked, computers were never hacked by the russians but hacked by the ukrainians and they were in ukraine. never any evidence for that. she didn't think there was much

to that story and somewhat upset by rudy giuliani's efforts to dig up dirt on joe biden. so this really goes right to the heart of this whole investigation and i suspect she will have some interesting things to say today about what rudy giuliani was doing either with or without the consent of the president and/or state department. >> sandra: as far as democrats and their push for impeachment and what we've seen this week newt gingrich joined us earlier. he seemed to suggest this whole thing will backfire on democrats. the former speaker. >> nancy pelosi is simply carrying out what is an unconstitutional, an effort to use the power of the congress to change the outcome for the american people and a direct assault on the whole idea of representing the american people and instead imposing democratic members of congress as the ultimate electoral college. i think it will backfire very

badly. >> sandra: a year out from the next election. will the whole thing backfire on democrats, chris? >> we don't know. we don't know what the results are going to be. i'm a little surprised at speaker gingrich who i greatly respect. this is the exact opposite of unconstitutional. it says impeachment is left to congress with statement how they want to conduct it. i think i remember that newt gingrich did an impeachment effort, led an impeachment effort against bill clinton in 1998. was that an effort to overturn an election? no, he was investigating stuff. we may find out there is no there there, or to say it's to overturn an election that's a reach for somebody like newt gingrich who was involved in the last impeachment effort. >> sandra: you watched the rally last night. who do you have coming up?

>> we're hoping the administration -- hasn't given us somebody. we hope to have somebody to talk about the very troubling invasion of northern syria by turkey or to talk about the impeachment efforts. we know we'll have chris van holland. he is working with lindsey graham, a big supporter of the president, to impose sanctions on turkey for their invasion of northern syria and it is lindsey graham who says that the president allowing erdogan and the turks to do this is the biggest mistake of his presidency. we'll have all of that on "fox news sunday". >> sandra: we'll be watching. thank you. >> bill: court action and a twist in the jennifer dulos matters. attorneys for the estranged husband filing a motion to get her medical records and there was a bill for a medical -- >> we just got a copy of the

filing made by the defense team asking a judge in connecticut to reconsider a previously denied motion to gain access to the medical records of jennifer dulos who as we've been reporting went missing may 24th. attorney norm pattis states that fotis dulos has received a bill from the estranged couple's medical insurance showing that jennifer dulos received medical treatment on july 7th. one month and 13 days after jennifer vanished saying if ms. dulos herself did as the bill suggests receive medical services on july 7, 2019, she is obviously if live, if not necessarily well. this motion includes reference to the previous bills sought by the defense which claim that jennifer dulos had bills from doctor's visits in february through april of this year for reproductive services. at the time of her disappearance the estranged couple were embroiled in a

bitter custody battle for their five children and two sets of twins. at today's motion states that fotis dulos is hoping to get the medical record to evaluate whether she had a medical condition that would have led her to cause her own disappearance in such a way that would raise suspicions about her estranged husband. you will remember fotis dulos and his girlfriend have been arrested twice for hindering prosecution after the two were seen on video surveillance disposing of multiple garbage bags which later tested positives for items containing jennifer's blood. it is a defense attorney's job to create reasonable doubt. we have reached out to the for jennifer's family. it could be a delay in billing, bookkeeping mistake of some kind but the defense says they have a right to find out exactly what it is. >> bill: thank you for that in new york. >> sandra: breaking news out of

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source and not even testifying but wants to submit written answers. problematic for something that is a momentous moment in history that we base a quaus i impeachment discovery. >> sandra: it is to protect the identity. historical precedent for. what could be done, written answers is what the whistleblower is requesting. there was talk about perhaps changing the voice if there was oral answers given. hiding behind a curtain. what else do you do if the job is to protect the identity of the whistleblower? >> it is not clear. if you send something to congress you might as well send it to the press. they will find a way to put it out there. i certainly recognize there is an issue with protecting the identity of the whistleblower. i think in this situation when

we're talking about impeaching a president, something that only happened two times in our history, you have to get that person in there and testify. now, it's up to congress to figure out how to do it to protect the person's identity. in no way should written answers be substituted for actual testimony. >> sandra: you heard the president last night in the rally tee off on joe biden and his son, hunter biden. questions about where hunter biden is and there is a lot of accusations being thrown around. based on the facts that we know today, did hunter biden do anything illegal? >> well, we don't know. this may just be a swampy instance where it's influence peddling that really just happens in washington and in international circles. it raises questions. president trump had a good faith reason for bringing that up. if a crime was committed we certainly have an incident where it's possible that something shady went on. it is not like he said let's go dig up this dirt on this guy for fun.

he actually had a reason. he had something that he wanted them to look into. and i think he is in a perfect situation at least politically from a campaign perspective. it is what you saw with hillary clinton. once he was able to get in on sort of the swampy nature of clinton, inc. so to speak is where he is able to get traction and doing the same thing against biden and i think it will hurt biden who people want to like. this is going to hurt that. >> sandra: based on the fact that a vote has not come up in the house yet on impeachment and we are wrapping another week of a lot of changes on the part of democrats moving forward with impeachment, where do you think things stand and where do things go from here? >> look, i'm looking at this through a political lens. it is all political. the biggest thing on the legal front the administration fighting the fact there hasn't been a vote. that's where the real interesting process is going to come into play. will nancy pelosi bring impeachment up for a vote and

if she does that, where do those swing districts democrats go? it's one thing to support an impeachment inquiry. another thing to put your vote on the record. they may lose the house just two years after they got it because of this. >> sandra: thank you for joining us this morning. appreciate your time. thank you. >> bill: 19 past the hour now. pictures out of california. raging fires destroying homes and closing a few freeways in l.a. county. how the firefighters are battling the intern owe and the winds have that kicked up overnight. >> everything is on fire up there. everything, the houses, everything is on fire. it's bad. here, it all starts with a simple...

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>> president trump's former ambassador to russia john huntsman meeting with paul whelan in moscow. he has been in prison for months with no evidence against him as reports indicate his health is rapidly deteriorating. paul's brother david. good morning to you, my best to you and your family as the long wait continues. what did the ambassador share with you after that meeting? >> well, it was incredible the ambassador used his last act in moscow to go visit my brother and he confirmed that paul's medical condition continues to be at peril. that he is in need of surgery and the russians don't have any plan for it. we're very concerned that is still the case and that paul's health is deteriorating. >> what has the russian government and vladimir putin said about the case. marine picked up with a usb drive.

that's what they claim. go ahead, david. >> that's right. as far as i know the russian government itself beyond the foreign ministry has en spoken saying he has caught red-handed as a spy. they haven't provided any evidence in the last 10 months since paul was arrested. >> bill: 10 months without evidence. >> 10 months out evidence. everything is secret in russia. >> what is your sense of that judicial system? >> it is not about justice but punishment and control. that's what they have done to paul. they've locked him into prison for 10 months and just are treating him terribly. >> bill: how is his health, david? >> it's very weak. and frankly, a matter of an emergency coming up now. he was supposed to have surgery nine months ago in the states. now he is dealing with russian

doctors who don't speak english who won't provide him or the u.s. embassy with the medical records of his current state of health and no way when he will have to have the surgery. >> bill: what have you heard about a possibility of a trial in moscow? >> they are looking at the evidence right now. it is the evidentiary period in the russian legal system after indiement. it could take many months depending whether the evidence is translated for paul. there is no obligation that it be made available to him in english. and then there will be a trial probably in the spring. >> bill: i get the sense from you, you aren't making progress here. ambassador huntsman went there for a reason. upon a direction of the president? he made this a priority to get americans free from overseas. this would be one of those cases. >> yes, ambassador huntsman made paul a priority and his staff at the u.s. embassy in moscow have been exceptional keeping us up to date. there hasn't been a lot of

movement. the embassy sends diplomatic notes and russian foreign ministry ignores them. it is a frustrating process. >> bill: my best to you and your family as you continue this long wait for your brother in moscow. we'll follow it. thank you for your time today, sir. >> sandra: president trump insisting he does not know the two giuliani associates arrested and charged with campaign finance violations. reaction from ari fleischer coming up next. >> bill: we get a live report from dallas on the wal-mart shooter. >> do you swear the testimony you are about to give in the proceedings shall be the truth, nothing but the truth so help you god?

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dow this morning to wrap the week. the dow is up 469 points. that's a rally, bill hemmer. there was good news on consumers, charles payne was here earlier talking about the rally. a big meeting with china and the president. see if a deal gets done. there is hope that one will. >> bill: holy dow. >> to the indictment, sir, do you wish to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. >> not guilty. >> the court entered a plea of not guilty on your behalf. >> sandra: the man accused of killing people pled not guilty to the massacre in august. casey stiegel is following this for us from dallas. >> good morning. this was the 21-year-old's first court appearance since that deadly massacre over the summer down in el paso. as you heard, the judge read the charge against patrick and

then one count of capital murder of multiple persons. a grand jury indicted him on that last month. dressed in a suit yesterday you heard him pleading not guilty before the court. his lawyers wouldn't elaborate whether they'll go for the insanity defense. they had this to say about the death penalty being pursued by the local district attorney, listen. >> the el paso community needs closure. the quickest way to get closure and healing is not through seeking the death penalty. i will tell you that mark and i will use every breath we have to try to save patrick's life. >> 22 people were killed and dozens more were injured when prosecutors say that gunman walked into a crowded el paso wal-mart store and opened fire at the beginning of august. he had a manifesto and made online comments about targeting mexicans in particular trying to, quote, kill as many as possible. the attack was the seventh most deadly mass shooting in modern

u.s. history. the third most deadly in texas being held on suicide watch in solitary confinement according to the el paso county sheriff. analysts say it will be another year or so before this goes to trial. but this is the first step in that process. by the way, some of the victims' family members were present yesterday at that court appearance. and two people still remain hospitalized more than 60 days now after that attack. >> sandra: wow. thank you. >> bill: new questions a day after two foreign born associates of rudy giuliani were accused of foreign money to influence an american election. ari fleischer, fox news contributor, how are you doing on a friday of all things? make sense of this. what do you think is going on? >> well, it's messy, isn't it?

first and foremost let me point out something here. bill barr is independent, isn't he? the united states attorney general who the democrats are seeking to destroy showed that he will pursue justice wherever he thinks it should be pursued and that's proper. justice should be blind. in that sense there is something meritorious here. when it means for donald trump. it's messy and it's ukraine and giuliani. i don't know if the charges have or don't have merit. ukraine and poll situations have been involved in our elections. certainly they were involved on behalf of hillary in 2016. more messy. >> bill: we will hold our fire on that for now. when we get developments we'll bring it to viewers. the matter happening behind closed doors, you are watching it from afar. i'm really curious to get your reflections on this. a woman who is employed by the u.s. government, administration could easily have blocked her testimony -- interview today and they chose not to. as opposed to some of the

others who a few days ago and even last week. what's the conventional wisdom or is there a contrarian thought on this? the president said take the votes and i'll cooperate. is this perhaps the signal of the beginning of that cooperation? in other words, if the administration thinks you'll vote anyway eventually, go ahead and get it done. what do you think of that? >> it strikes me that it's cooperation ala carte. if we think the witness is a good witness we'll let them cooperate. if we're worried they might not be we won't let them cooperate. after the release of the letter where they said the principaled thing to do is to hold a vote. if you hold a vote it will free us to cooperate, why aren't they adhering to that? the fact they're willing to let some testify and others not. it sends a confusing signal. >> bill: peter schweizer was

with us on this topic ukraine and the bidens. >> ukraine is a terribly corrupt country. they're trying to curry favor in the united states and i think in the case of hunter biden, the notion that he got this sweetheart deal is nothing to see, is just contradicted by the fact that you have all these other actions going forward. the bottom line is we don't want ukrainian meddling in the united states and politics. >> bill: there you have it. you have to wonder what joe biden is doing. how is he managing this so far? >> he is lucky to be a democrat. if this was a republican the press would be having a feeding frenzy how inappropriate it is to have your son get that money. what qualifications did your son have, etc. the press is running blocking for joe biden the quarterback. so i'm waiting for the reporters to ask those questions. maybe at the democratic debate next week. but biden has been able to skate by because really the

press is sitting silently because they don't want to make a case that could support something donald trump is saying. so fear has gotten into journalists, they fear trump. won't do their job. >> bill: you have a prediction for next week? does someone go after him on this topic? does he clear it up before tuesday or is it a matter where five days isn't quite enough to make that happen? >> i think tulsi gabbard might go after him. i don't think none of the democrats want to engage the issue. it is something donald trump has raised and no one wants to be seeing carrying trump's water even if it raises legitimate questions that need to be looked into. will the moderators ask the questions and be journalists? >> great point. nice to see you, ari fleischer with us. have a good weekend. thank you. >> sandra: president trump this morning signaling trade talks

are ongoing with china and going well. wall street likes what they've heard so far. a lot of green on the screen to close out a week. the dow up 490 points. >> bill: more backlash today after some of the shocking allegations were unveiled against matt lauer and the man who is making them is talking today. we'll let you know what ronan farrow believes he has uncovered. >> multiple disclosure agreements and several the matt lauer accusers.

one call can save you $2000 every year. >> bill: breaking news. fox news confirming through our reporter lucas tomlinson the u.s. will deploy 1,000 more troops to saudi arabia according to defense officials. the exact number said to be around roughly 1,000. so we're watching this story and bring it to you. a story that broke overnight about an iranian oil tanker hit with a rocket attack on the

west coast of saudi arabia near the port city of jeda and we're watching this. that's the word from the pentagon a moment ago. >> sandra: continued fallout after sexual assault allegations have been leveled against matt lauer. they were detail in ronan farrow's new book. he was fired from nbc over those allegations but could he be criminally prosecuted now. trial attorney heather hanssen joining us now. will there be criminal charges in matt lauer? >> in russia they would have to start the investigation from scratch. their laws on these types of things aren't nearly as helpful to women as they are here in the united states. so i don't anticipate a criminal investigation against matt lauer at this point. most of the lawsuits are sort of no longer available to her. the criminal investigation not likely. any civil case against matt

lauer is barred by the statute of limitations. she settled with nbc we know that. >> sandra: in the u.s. or russia. >> in the u.s. criminal law allows longer. they won't bring him back to russia. we don't have a treaty with them. in the united states there are certain statute of limitations to civil cases and she is beyond that in the case against matt. she did bring this to the attention of the nbc authorities and they entered into some sort of a settlement. it has been reported a seven figure settlement and not asked to sign a non-disclosure. we know that because she is now talking. that's unusual and a recent development in these types of cases. the only civil case i can see coming out of this is if matt lauer decides to turn around and sue her for defamation and the reason i think that's a possibility is in his letter he refers to this book and her allegations as defamatory and also calls on those people who he say support his case to come

forward and speak. if he is angry enough and if he feels strongly enough the evidence will support him he could file a case of defamation against her. >> sandra: sound like you got the sense he might be deciding to take some sort of legal action. ronan farrow on "good morning america." these allegations are in his new book and here he is talking about them. >> we're very careful about laying out exactly what happened and what she said when she went to them. she described a rape or sexual assault like many trauma victims. not ready to use those words. her attorney did what is done often in criminal investigations and cases where someone complains at a company. ask a clear series of questions that without a doubt said this is non-consensual and even stops the proceedings to say it was non-consensual we want to be here. >> sandra: a portion of matt lauer's statement provided by his attorney. today nearly two years after i

was fired by nbc old stories are being recycled. details are being added in a dangerous and defamatory new allegations made. as part of a promotional effort to sell a book. he says it's outrageous. >> you don't get to cross-examine the people against you in public opinion. in trials i can't use a book as evidence because it's hearsay. no one gets to cross-examine the author of the book. if we were in court each of the people involved in this case would be examined and cross-examined and we could look at the evidence. this continues to be he said, she said and remain so unless someone sues. >> sandra: we'll finish with nbc's statement. matt lauer's conduct was reprehensible. that's why he was fired within 24 hours of us first learning of the complaint. our hearts break again for our colleague. >> i don't think we're done hearing about this. ronan farrow claims there were

seven other complaints and non-disclosure agreements. nbc denied that. we'll hear more of that. this story is far from over. >> sandra: thank you. >> bill: in a moment here is your private information safe? you might want to double-check that. why most americans fail the cybersecurity risk test. ♪ what are you doing back there, junior?

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he is hospitalized in serious condition but expected to survive. police say the ferrari was speeding and he was not wearing a seat belt. spence is a welterweight champion undefeated in his professional career. >> cybersecurity an important issue for all of us these days. many americans do not know the answers to some critical questions concerning your online privacy. so we brought brett larson in to help us out. >> this is what i like to call job security. >> bill: the story. a majority of u.s. adults can answer fewer than half of these questions correctly. i'll ask you some of these questions and >> see if i know the answer. >> bill: where might you encounter a phishing scam? >> a lot of adults don't know what it is. a little over 60% understood phishing scam.

an email that looks legit mate but it isn't. if you click on the links you are taken to a phony website to steal all your information. >> we're educating people, right >> they are literally the most common scam that you are going to fall victim to. it is really important you pay extra close attention. >> bill: they can come from anywhere in the world. >> it could look like your bank or utility. >> bill: what does net neutrality mean? >> it was a surprise, 42% not sure. it has been a hot political issue over the last couple of years. it basically means your internet traffic, all internet traffic is treated the same whether you go to google to look something up or youtube or netflix. all of that traffic will arrive to you the same way. without net neutrality you can create fast lanes where netflix

could pay extra so that their streams show up at your house quicker so you are accessing a different lane. >> bill: one of the best explanations i've ever heard. >> i try to keep it very simple for everybody. >> bill: number three. what are private browsing and incognito mode. the question posed and here are the results. >> this response did not surprise me. this is a relatively new thing. we see it in safari and google chrome. as you can see there 24% got it correct, half the people didn't know what it is. private browsing is a mode you can put your web browser in to open a new window for you and everything that you do during that session is kept separate from everything else. where you go, what you look at. any cookies you collect around the way. none will be connected to any other web browsing history. it will prevent things like a facebook, google or amazon from tracking you. when you look something up and think about buying it and every advertisement you see for the

next six months is the thing you thought about buying. it will help alleviate that. >> bill: what is your take? are we doing better? >> i think we're taking steps -- the phishing email thing was comforting to see. we're still seeing those attacks. some of the other stuff i will give everyone a pass. not understanding what net neutrality and browsing. you can now start using it. >> sandra: we all learned something there. the fired u.s. ambassador to ukraine testifying behind closed doors in an impeachment inquiry. what we're now learning about her and what it could mean for the president. we'll have that next for you on "outnumbered." - [narrator] meet the ninja foodi pressure cooker

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up 420 points, some good economic news out today, pushing stocks higher. you've got some big names out there hitting all-time highs, like apple, for example. what a way to finish off the week. you never know. still a few hours left in trading. for now, a big rally. >> bill: big meeting with the project on my chinese from you, and fox news confirming moments ago the pentagon will deploy more troops. exact number not clear come around roughly 1,003 that summer to get from our crew at the pentagon. also we can confirm the new deployment will include two f-15 fighter squadrons, patriot missile batteries, and the antimissile defense system. currently about 250 u.s. service members deployed in saudi arabia. watch that story here as it breaks. meanwhile, from the west coast, there's this. >> sandra: 's northern los angeles, an intense situation happening there. fast-growing wind-driven wildfires in the northern los angeles area, forcing evacuation orders, tens of

thousands of people have had to get out quickly, leaving their homes, schools are being shut down because of these facts have spreading wildfires. the los angeles fire department is confirming now that one person is dead. 19 are injured. as i mentioned, 100,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders. >> bill: really remarkable. something just came out of nowhere. in northern california, pg and he shut off the power of this past week of 800 thousand. rolling blackouts in the counseling. you'd think, was that a precautionary measure or was it necessary? after you see the results in southern california. what started these fires, we do not know. we know the winds picked up overnight. watching william la jeunesse report about two and a half hours ago. during sunrise out there, the wind was blowing. you can see it clearly from the life pictures that he was giving us. that is one of the biggest fear fears, that residents have any

time fires get brewing. when the wind picks up there is very little they can do in terms of control. we are seeing some of the results from that. you heard that resident who came down the mountain a bit earlier, sandra? he said, "everything up there is burning and we are getting out of here." >> sandra: fascinating. the fact we can't even tell you the origination, but the pictures that we are now seeing coming from the northern los angeles area. the saddle ridge fire, bill, started thursday. it exploded to more than 4,000 acres by early this morning. it jumped across the freeways overnight, and this is the situation that is unfolding there. >> bill: the same wins, 20 to 25 miles per hour. gusts up to 50 miles per hour. that is no good for trying to fight this and bring it under control. >> sandra: our best to those seeking safety right now. that is it for us. as we grab another week, we will see you back your monday morning. thank you for joining us, everyone. >> bill: you got it. next week will be a doozy. >> sandra: have a good

weekend, enjoy it. [laughs] happy weekend, everybody. "outnumbered" starts now. >> harris: we begin with this fox news alert as we await a briefing by top pentagon officials set to begin at any moment, and we will take you there life. you see the lectern on the left side of your screen. fox news now confirming the pentagon will send additional american troops to saudi arabia, as well as two f-15 fighter squadrons and other military hardware, such as patriot batteries and one terminal high altitude area defense system, known as thad. this in response to attacks on saudi oil facilities last month. we understand the additional number to be deployed is roughly 1,000. right now there are currently 250 u.s. troops stationed there in saudi arabia on this particular mission. about 60,000 deployed across various nations and warships in the middle east. obviously, this comes as pentagon officials are eyeing the developments in another part of that region with turkey's military operation in northern syria.

we are watching all of this, and